Renovations or Complete Teardown?
Sylvain G.
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Can some of the existing systems be salvaged? Or should we aim to build something new from the ground up? (Test thread? hehe)
Poll Created Thu 18 Jul 2013 12:58AM
Refactor and iterate Closed Sun 21 Jul 2013 9:22AM
It's more practical to evolve existing systems than to scrap them, despite how intellectually appealing the later is.
Take an existing system, find the worst problem with it, modify it to address that, try it out. Keep doing this and it'll gradually improve.
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Agree | 66.7% | 2 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 33.3% | 1 |
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| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 1 |
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3 of 4 people have participated (75%)
Sylvain G.
Thu 18 Jul 2013 2:24AM
Better to start from scratch than to keep trying to apply band-aid solutions to something obviously broken.
Emanuele Dal Carlo
Fri 19 Jul 2013 8:00AM
I agree with this point of view because is basically what nature does with evolution, it keeps on sprouting different mutation every generation and only the fittest to the changing environment will pass the genes onward. mutational democracy ;-)
Andrew Gonsalves · Wed 17 Jul 2013 9:37PM
What I'm imagining is not necessarily a complete "teardown", nor do I feel like salvaging whole system. I think that revisiting what we believe are basic or normal values will get us to be where we need.
Here's an example: What makes a good leader?
One might say ambition and the ability to get people rallied around a cause. But there may be some side-effects of those attributes that in turn make this person actually a bad choice. While they may be able to get stuff done, they might also make bad decisions. Maybe a good leader is the last person we'd expect.
We might find, after evaluating these ideas, that the current systems are as good as we can get. Or we might come up with an entirely different way of thinking.